Dimitrie Ghica School, Comanesti Romania

ROMANIAN REVOLUTION

The walls come tumbling down

Romanian Bloody Revolution of 1989

I  Remember!

"I remember the days of that Bloody December!

I was only 15 (the age of my students)!

I've heard on Radio Free Europe that in TIMISOARA the people upraised ...

The next day while going to school I asked my friend if she heard the same things as I did . She said: "Yes...sstt! shut up we cannot talk about it. "

I remember the years before that Bloody December. I remember the evenings without electricity, the fight for food.

But the harmful thing was we cannot talk. We were afraid to talk to our friends, to our neighbors. In fact, everybody suspected everybody. I remember the fear from my parents eyes when my mothers was to be imprisoned for she dared to tell a political joke.

What we gain? The LIBERTY: of speech, of travel, of information. WE REGAIN our identity as nation, as human being!"

(testimony of Teofana  Lavinia VARAREANU - our project coordinator)

 

What a year...  1989 in Europe

From 1968 to 1989, more and more people in Eastern and Central Europe decided to step out of line... in the year 1989 something snapped in society as a whole. 1989 became "the year communism in Eastern Europe died"

Poland and Hungary

In April 1989, Solidarity was again legalized and allowed to participate in parliamentary elections on June 4, 1989 A political earthquake followed. The victory of Solidarity surpassed all predictions.

Following Poland's lead, Hungary was next to revert to a non-communist government.  In October 1989, the Communist Party convened its last congress and re-established itself as the Hungarian Socialist Party, which still exists as of today. In a historic session from October 16 to October 20, the parliament adopted legislation providing for multi-party parliamentary elections and a direct presidential election. The legislation transformed Hungary from a People's Republic into the Republic of Hungary, guaranteed human and civil rights, and created an institutional structure that ensured separation of powers among the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of government.

The collapse of the Berlin Wall

In East Germany, the Berlin Wall had stood since 1961, a stark reminder of the Cold War. But by November 1989, its destruction had become the symbol for communism's demise in Europe.

 

In ROMANIA..... more